Bram Stoker 
Dracula 

‘I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.’
Judging only by the many thousands of books, films and TV series about vampires, Dracula must be one of the most influential novels in history. Stoker introduced many of the classic vampire conventions that are now second nature to us. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the book is known as more than just the tale of a Count trying to relocate from Transylvania to England.